Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Panthers

[Bruce 38-0]

As someone said that time before half time was huge. With the Riff you need to go with them.

[nayfo]

Encouraging that it was 2 tries a piece in the 2nd half.
That capitulation in the last 10 minutes of the first half really punished us.

[nayfo]

Gone from 4th to 7th on the ladder.
A real chance of dropping to 8th if the Rabbits win tomorrow.

[nayfo]

Angus literally pushed S.Crichton through the line when he scored his 80 metre try. Piss this guy off already. Clearly disinterested.

He was very poor tonight

[BillyBonkers]

Its the pack mate to light, to old I'm not saying that they are shit but thats where the problem is , keary and walker were nullified by the penrith pack its as simple as that.

Sadly true.

[Noosa Rooster]

[QUOTE=Thirteen;n933788]Angus literally pushed S.Crichton through the line when he scored his 80 metre try. Piss this guy off already. Clearly disinterested. [/QUOTE]

We must have watched a different game. If he was disinterested he wouldn’t have chased hard for 70 of those 80 metres.

[roosterchook]

Liked May. He should be a permanent starter. With him Verril and Radley we may have done a lot better. But we really tried. Some tackles they laid on us but no 6 again. Referee gets 6/10. We weren’t disgraced. But still I would say we are rebuilding and it won’t happen this year.

[TumutChook]

I hear all the massive wraps on Egan Butcher but I must say his ball handling is piss poor..

As good as he’s projected to be he needs to work on his handling before being a regular first grader, very disappointing..

Hasn’t been a strong suit of any of our Forwards over the last decade,so fits right in.

[King Salvo]

Stats can be misleading but i would say the last 15 or so of the First half was where the game was won and lost.

The errors certainly mounted during this period and Penrith don't need an invitation to capitalise on these.- 3 converted tries to lead 18-0 at Half time

Interesting to note in the second half the Roosters average play the ball speed was 3.20 seconds compared to 2.42 seconds in the first half - why would that be so - Penrith given more time in the tackle?

Stats 1st half - Roosters 0 - Penrith 18

Possession - Roosters 41% - Penrith 59%
Set Completions - Roosters 72% (13/18) - Penrith - 87% ( 21/24)
Line Breaks - Roosters - 0 - Penrith - 3
Kicking - Roosters 377 metres ( 11 kicks) - Penrith 398 metres ( 13 kicks)
Forced Dropouts - Roosters 1 - Peneith 3
Average play the ball speed - Roosters -2.42 seconds - Penrith - 3.74 seconds
Tackles - Roosters- 228 (17 missed ) - Penrith - 172 ( 10 missed)
Errors - Roosters 6 - Penrith 3
Penalties conceded - Roosters 2 - Penrith 2
Ruck Infringements conceded - Roosters 1 - Penrith 0

Stats 2nd half- Roosters 12 - Penrith 14

Possession - Roosters 59% - Penrith 41%
Set Completions - Roosters 83% (19/23) - Penrith - 84% ( 15/18)
Line Breaks - Roosters - 1 - Penrith - 2
Kicking - Roosters 210 metres ( 13 kicks) - Penrith 283 metres ( 9 kicks)
Forced Dropouts - Roosters 2 - Peneith 0
Average play the ball speed - Roosters -3.20 seconds - Penrith - 3.80 seconds
Tackles - Roosters- 162 (11 missed ) - Penrith - 190 ( 24 missed)
Errors - Roosters 2 - Penrith 3
Penalties conceded - Roosters 3 - Penrith 5
Ruck Infringements conceded - Roosters 2 - Penrith 1

Match full stats - Roosters 12 - Penrith 32

Possession - Roosters 50% - Penrith 50%
Set Completions - Roosters 78% (32/41) - Penrith - 85% ( 36/42)
Line Breaks - Roosters - 1 - Penrith - 5
Kicking - Roosters 587 metres ( 24 kicks) - Penrith 681 metres ( 22 kicks)
Forced Dropouts - Roosters 3 - Peneith 3
Average play the ball speed - Roosters -2.81 seconds - Penrith - 3.77 seconds
Tackles - Roosters- 390 (28 missed ) - Penrith - 362 ( 34 missed)
Errors - Roosters 9 - Penrith 7
Penalties conceded - Roosters 5 - Penrith 7
Ruck Infringements conceded - Roosters 3 - Penrith 1

https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premier...rs-v-panthers/

[TumutChook]

Keary has been below average this year

When is he meant to come good?

I’d agree the first 6/7 rounds but he was excellent last week & couldn’t say anything bad about him tonight. He kicked ok & I think he tackled well & defended strongly. No room for him tonight but that’s not his fault.

[TumutChook]

trent cant do miracles we dont have a team that we once had time to blood young forwards for the experience and stop buying average players to substitute for the good players we loose

Yeah but then accept that for the next 2/3 seasons that we won’t be a top 4 side then. They will be good in a few years but still too inexperienced atm & far too much same same for me. None are really stepping up and taking a stranglehold on their positions.

[TumutChook]

Some of the people on here could genuinely improve by pulling their heads in.
The Panthers have lost like 5 games over the two and a half years. They're borderline unbeatable and utterly toweled Melbourne up last week, too. A lot of the effort tonight was extremely good, but the reality is they're just better than us at the moment.

I think I saw enough to be optimistic if we run into them come finals time. They're going to rightfully be favourites against anyone they play for the rest of the season, but we don't need to reinvent the wheel to beat them. Just need a healthy squad, some more improvement, and a bit of luck on the day we play them.

Thought JWH, Suaalli and Toops were all exceptional. May certainly looked handy, as well. Definitely can't fall back on that side-to-side attack that we do sometimes. That won't ever work against the Panthers. They're too fit and disciplined. Gotta keep punching through, and we have a strong enough pack to do it later on the in the season.

Agree on a few points as they are a great side & the players you listed had great games. But Never in my mind did I think we would win as they are just a cut above the comp. They are dead set certainties to win B2B & we are a fair way off them as apart from Rads we were full strength tonight & they just rode out the 1st 20 mins then stepped up when needed.

[Mickie Lane]

The Panthers are the best team in the comp & watching them live tonight makes me so envious of them.
They are what the Roosters were in 2018 & 2019. They will go back to back.

[TumutChook]

Watson's passing game from the ruck is awful and is contributing to the disjointed attack.

Watson offers nothing in any position in my opinion. He has no passing game.

[TumutChook]

[QUOTE=Noosa Rooster;n933800]

Angus literally pushed S.Crichton through the line when he scored his 80 metre try. Piss this guy off already. Clearly disinterested. [/QUOTE]

We must have watched a different game. If he was disinterested he wouldn’t have chased hard for 70 of those 80 metres.

Yeah I can’t put any blame on Angus tonight. Wasn’t brilliant but I thought he went ok.